Director: John McTiernan

Keywords: Drama, Action/Adventure, Submarine, Cold War

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alec Baldwin	Actor	3-Apr-1958		A Baldwin Brother
Sean Connery	Actor	25-Aug-1930		James Bond
Tim Curry	Actor	19-Apr-1946		Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
Daniel Davis	Actor	26-Nov-1945		Niles the Butler on The Nanny
Andrew Divoff	Actor	2-Jul-1955		Wishmaster
Peter Firth	Actor	27-Oct-1953		Harry Pearce on Spooks
Scott Glenn	Actor	26-Jan-1941		The Silence of the Lambs
James Earl Jones	Actor	17-Jan-1931		Voice of Darth Vader and CNN
Jeffrey Jones	Actor	28-Sep-1946		Ferris Bueller's principal
Richard Jordan	Actor	19-Jul-1938	30-Aug-1993	Logan's Run
Gates McFadden	Actor	2-Mar-1949		Dr. Crusher on Star Trek: TNG
Sam Neill	Actor	14-Sep-1947		Played Reilly, Ace of Spies
Stellan Skarsgård	Actor	13-Jun-1951		Breaking the Waves
Fred Thompson	Actor	19-Aug-1942		Actor turned Senator from Tennessee
Courtney B. Vance	Actor	12-Mar-1960		ADA Ron Carver in Law & Order: CI

REVIEWS

Review by Dave Meloche (posted on 6-Apr-2005)

This is all about Capt. Ramius (Sean Connery), who is one of the Soviet Union's top Submarine Commanders. He has the "honor" of taking out to sea the "Red October", the Soviet's newest Missile Sub on it's maiden voyage.

The wrinkle is the Capt. Ramius has convinced his officers to defect with him to America, and hand the sub over to our Navy.

Needless to say, this doesn't sit too well with the Soviet High Command, and almost the entire Soviet Fleet is dispatched to intercept and sink the Red October.

Enter Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan, a CIA researcher in Intelligence, who once met Ramius at a reception several years earlier. His theory is that Ramius is going to defect, which raises eyebrows with the High Military Experts, as they think he is gone mad and is going to attack the US East Coast with his missiles.

Of course you know who proves to be right.

Scott Glenn does a fine job as the Skipper of the Los Angeles Attack Submarine "Dallas". His sonar operator, Jonsey, played by Courtney Vance, picks up on the Red October with their new "Catepiller Drive", a nearly invisible drive that Sonar can't pick up. They didn't figure on "Jonsey's" ear for the anomaly sound that the drive makes.

Most of the entire movie is centered on how the Red October evades the Red Navy, and how the skipper contacts the US Navy sub, the Dallas. By now Jack Ryan is aboard the Dallas, establishes contact with Ramius, and leads him to an area where they can consumate the turning over of the Red October.

A side story is the following of the Red October by the Konovolev, a Soviet attack sub, which has orders to sink Ramius and his boat. The cover story is a "rescue" mission, but we know the truth, don't we...

All turns out as you would expect, with a few twists here and there.

The movie differs from the book greatly towards the end, as the October is hit with a torpedo from the Konovolev and damaged, but not sunk.

In the movie, the torpedo is affected by underwater decoy defenses and the torpedo turns from it's target and acquires the Konovolev as it's new target, and destroys it.

The movie version shows the torpedo just missing the Red October because of the Dallas.

There are a lot of well-know stars in this movie, and it is well worth seeing, more than a few times.

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